From tricking other boys into whitewashing his fence to getting lost in the caves with Becky Thatcher, and witnessing a murder in a graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer escapes any number of scrapes with a mixture of charm, quick thinking, and plain luck in Mark Twain's 1876 classic for all ages. Twain reported that he based Tom on three boys he knew in his hometown, and some of Tom's adventures were Twain's own. Like the other titles in this series of affordable classics, this book has been reset in fresh type. It includes a frontispiece illustration and a brief biography of the author.